The Hindu : Today's Headlines : Monday, August 09, 2004

Cane substitutes to be `doubly sweet' for farmers

Andhra Pradesh - Others

Judge calls for steps to check pollution

Call girl racket busted

CPI dharna on land issue today

Eight CIs transferred

Athletics

Can Indian athletes sprint to glory?

Badminton

Nischitha advances

Maiden senior title for Sreeraj

Maanikanth triumphs

Tough draw for Aparna Popat

Bangalore

Paying guests: hosts may be taxed

Rescued camels return to Rajastan

Mystery over death of realtor's wife continues

Delay in overpass work hits commuters

House burgled in BEML Layout

Watchman bludgeoned to death at construction site

Medical transcription firms form association

IIMB takes top honours

In Bangalore Today

Indian Army lifts Magnolia Trophy

Basketball

Hindustan BC in final

Belgaum

Opposition seeks early election for Mayor's post

Bellary

Irregularities found in Agriculture Dept. in Bellary

Farewell to Nimbalkar

Bellary roads to get a facelift

Bidar

Eye surgery target achieved

Boxing

Railways snatches team title from Services

Business

Is there still room for softer interest rates?

The big, noisy and underpowered

Salem Steel at a crossroads

Price band for petrol and diesel: a halfway house

Secure P2P file sharing tool

Not many changes in corporate taxation

Inflation, oil news upset sentiment

Chennai

What's best for baby? No questions: breast milk

Health `key to workplace productivity'

It's New Veeranam water: Minister

College backs down, concedes students' demands

They're not feral, but they're a problem all the same

Auto drivers undergoing training

Professional ethics for engineers

Milk booth opened at Avadi

Wine shop burgled at Vadapalani

Cargo firm employee crushed to death

In Chennai today

Anand requires only a draw for victory

Chess

Eesha holds Tomas

Divyasri, Pratyusha take titles

Vishnu Prasad bags title

Coimbatore

RTOs to issue application forms free

Smith leads from the front as Proteas force a draw

In Coimbatore Today

Reporter's Diary

Cricket

Doubts persist over BCCI accepting fresh proposal

Ashish, Sandeep excel

Lalith scalps seven

Satish, Vidyut shine

India `A' continues to dominate

MRF Trophy from August 11

Easy for Vignesh SC

Controversy mars KSCA league match

Easy for YMCC

Aussie academy team in city

Satyam triumphs

Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8057

Solution to puzzle 8056

Cuddapah

Ex gratia to four bereaved families of farmers

`Awareness will eradicate flesh trade'

RMP ends life

Hair ball removed from girl's stomach

Youth dies in road mishap

Dindigul

`Role of women vital in eradicating child labour'

`Expedite planting of saplings before rainy season'

Editorials

INFLATION SURGES

A SENSELESS CONFRONTATION

Erode

Artificial limbs distributed

Football

Guru Harkrishan blanks Sarvadoya Vidyalaya

Hat-trick by Dalip

Front Page

Manipur situation turning volatile

Hostage issue: differences persist over negotiations

40 workers trapped in hydel project tunnel after flash floods

Centre keen on barring criminals from polls

Five Dalits killed

Ready to fight to the finish: Bilkis

'Kidnapped'

Blasts in Karachi

Italy refuses to extradite Quattrocchi

Bandh call

Generalia

Greece all geared up for the big occasion

Golf

Selvadurai emerges champion

Gujarat

Rain in Kutch

Gulbarga

`Reconsider stand on agriculture subsidy'

Guntur

YSR announces drinking water scheme

Haryana

Haryana Congress leaders acting against State: Minister

Himachal Pradesh

Nathpa project resumes production

Hockey

Brace by Horo

SBI blanks Royal Club

India beats German club

Hyderabad

`It is a miracle others have survived the chaos'

412 children suffer from cardiac ailments

Couple poisons kids, commits suicide

Protest against hostel food

In Hyderabad Today

`Pakistan must do more to curb cross-border terror'

India & World

India for action against Nepalese cable network

International

White House race gets nasty

Pakistan terror suspect `visited' U.K.

U.K. Jews fear rise in attacks by Muslim groups

UAE extradites top Pakistani militant

Agent Orange refuses to be history

Shark attacks linked to sea pollution

Prisoner abuse hearing halted

Apartheid party merges with ANC

2 U.S. soldiers die in Afghan blast

Eight killed in Karachi blasts

Warrant against Ahmad Chalabi

Karimnagar

Appeal to naxals to withdraw list of targets

KCR asked to spell out stand on armed struggle

Circle Inspectors transferred

Karnataka

Congress, Janata Dal (S) on collision course

Govt. will go in for debt swapping: Siddaramaiah

Non-Karnataka students may move court today

Rural areas to be targeted to check STD

New proposal to rectify Amarja canal system

Nanjundappa panel report termed vision document

One day they hope to stand up on their feet

My party will not ditch Congress: Deve Gowda

Water level in Tungabhadra dam just six ft. short of FRL

`Evolve ways to protect environment'

Importance of alternative therapies highlighted

Two get bail in rice scam case

24 get World Friendship Society awards

Tight security

Anomalies in property tax scheme to be rectified

S.N. Nadagouda dead

Farmers to get arrears from sugar factory

From the Districts

Karnataka - Others

Homage paid to Nijalingappa

Tribal people to stage dharna

Dalit Natakotsava inaugurated

`Rebel' candidate wins election

Kerala

'Collective failure of LDF'

Public transport vehicles flouting safety norms

`CPI(M) took P.C. Thomas lightly'

Probe unearths bid to cover up Tanzanian wood import racket

Film industry sops not to benefit public

PSC recruitment of lower court judges sought

Boat club decides to do away with sponsorship

High command to decide on Cabinet reshuffle: Thennala

Pinarayi questions Government's sincerity

Government accused of helping Pushpagiri

Panel report: Yogam for joint stir

Ration dealers plan Parliament march

Global Malayali meet begins

AITUC dharna

Workshop on medicinal plants

Kerala - Others

Condition improves

Kochi

Noise levels high in city: study

Chellanam-Ezhupunna road to be completed soon

Identification camp for Defence pensioners

In Kochi Today

Kollam

House destroyed in fire

DCC leadership meet today

Kottayam

Oldest native club starts its 125th anniversary fete

Plea for reservation

Kozhikode

VS visits Fazeela in hospital

Minister opens rainwater storage tanks

Leader Page Articles

Abu Ghraib & the Milosevic standard

The orphans of Laos

Letters to the Editor

Over-the-top proposals

Madhya Pradesh

Lessons not learnt from Bhopal disaster: Experts

Madurai

Centre plans to introduce uniform enforcement rule

Efforts on to computerise State Information Centre

Plea for single licence system

Govt. urged to bail out handloom workers

`Issue community certificates to students'

Mangalore

Study on to augment water supply in Mangalore

Corporation may fine hotels for not maintaining hygiene

Overloaded trucks damaging roads in Dakshina Kannada

Elected president of Bar association

Coastal pollution on the rise

In Mangalore Today

When students took lead in Quit India Movement

Mysore

It's vachana, Shivayoga time for prisoners

`Capitalists curtailing editorial freedom'

Sugarcane growers agree on support price

Nagercoil

Form self-help groups, Collector tells disabled persons

Nalgonda

Lok Satta office-bearers elected

National

Cleanse administration of RSS supporters: Arjun Singh

Government should talk with Manipur agitators: Bardhan

BJP reconstitutes party cells

High-profile MPs in key panels

We must be patient: Natwar Singh

Sweet news for one, sadness for another

Fake stamp paper scam probe at `crucial stage'

Militant outfit calls for 72-hour bandh in 2 Assam districts

Seed of obesity sown in childhood

AAI asked to compensate for escalator death

Mufti's 'invest appeal' gets good response

IEDs damage power transmission towers

AITUC wants rethink on EPF interest rate

PC sales to touch 8 million by 2008

We are ready to appeal, say Amitabh, Asha Parekh

Nellore

Collector calls for `responsible policing'

Bodies of mother, son found in canal

New DSP (Railways)

New Delhi

Kendriya Bhandar weekly rates

Sulabh intensifies `lobbying'

A dream comes true for street kids

Mayor's aide upsets MCD officials

`Ridge area needs protection'

MCD panel seeks promotion of `tainted' official

Dog squad losing teeth

Two held for cheating

School principal injured, son killed in shootout

Grammy-winning monks felicitated

cinema

Betting racket smashed

Arrested for double murder

Obituary

Olympic Games

Ioannou fighting a different battle

Perambalur

SHGs to visit units in other districts

Pondicherry

Freedom fighters to get free house site pattas

Painting contest in running train

Pondy a Congress bastion: Khurshid

Punjab

Travel agents flourishing in Punjab

Punjab takes umbrage at Chautala charges

Racing : Motor

Naren-Ramkumar duo triumphs

Rajasthan

CII tips to tackle drought

Religion

Efficacy of proper diet

Sailing

Rajesh Choudhary on song

Shooting

Prithiviraj breaks record

Sports : General

Lone medal hope

Something missing in the Indian team

Table Tennis

Udhay, Ashwini bag titles

Tamil Nadu

Student activists allege police brutality

Expenditure incurred on family card enumeration infructuous: CAG

Sudden burst of political activity

Advertisement testimony to CAG report: Vaiko

Is Pamban bridge gauge conversion worth the cost?

DMK cycle rally to publicise Salem meet

Bid to storm newspaper office

Veteran actor Ramadoss dead

Tribal villages `virtual open air prisons'

Now, jatropha booklet to further bio-fuel farming

Why doctors need to study 'miracles'

'Madurai textile units should form clusters to beat competition'

ITIs to be upgraded

Dalit woman shows the way to better yields

'Water release must be a field decision'

`Judiciary must protect rights'

Tamil Nadu - Others

By-pass road sought to reduce congestion in Aranthangi

Last date to apply for scholarship

Pulivalam tank to be desilted

Multimedia exhibition at Tiruttani

Tennis

Agassi overshadows Roddick

Sania Mirza wins title

Thanjavur

Elocution, painting competitions

Thiruvananthapuram

UDF, LDF try to outfox each other

Plea for Supreme Court Bench to be considered

Plus Two student run over by tipper lorry

Two-day seminar on `green building'

Woman found dead

In Thiruvananthapuram Today

Reporter's Diary

This Day That Age

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Thrissur

`Fourth Estate follows doctrine of business'

Tiruchi

Principals asked to set up quality assurance cells

A refuge for lovers

Bharathidasan varsity students to get insurance cover

Consortium opens office in Tiruchi

Bank to lend more to farmers

Govt. urged to hold talks with transport workers

In Tiruchi Today

Reporter's Diary

Tirunelveli

Tirupati

`Pattas, ration cards on your doorstep'

Tuticorin

`Convene gram sabha meetings on Aug. 15'

Recovered ornaments handed over to owners

Udupi

Dharam Singh pacifies protesters

Uttar Pradesh

More U.P. districts declared drought-hit

SP-Congress vie for political one-upmanship in U.P.

Vijayawada

Speedy completion of pending projects promised

Visakhapatnam

Customs, excise set for cyber touch

Vidyut Adalat today

Train service cancelled

Woman found dead

In Visakhapatnam Today